{"id":1382,"date":"2010-08-05T20:21:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T00:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sj\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2010-08-05T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T02:24:32","slug":"google-130m-tomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/2010\/08\/05\/google-130m-tomes\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s 130M tomes (metadata only)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes confusing &#8220;books whose metadata has been scanned by Google&#8221; with &#8220;books that exist in the world&#8221;, a recent post on the G-blog about <a href=\"http:\/\/booksearch.blogspot.com\/2010\/08\/books-of-world-stand-up-and-be-counted.html\">the size of the Google Books repository<\/a> is delightful in its details.\u00a0 Thanks to <strong>Leonid Taycher<\/strong> for condensing that into a bit of light reading.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, no estimates are given on the long-tail number of works that are nowhere close to having their metadata scavenged; or the number of works in the world that have never been moved into a formal archive; or the average number of tomes per conceptual work.\u00a0 So it&#8217;s hard to gauge from this list anything like &#8216;what % of scanned books are available in freely licensed digital form online&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>But at least the Internet Archive collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/\">within two orders of magnitude<\/a>. Now if only finished Wikibooks would make it into that collection&#8230;\u00a0 In related news, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.openlibrary.org\/2010\/08\/04\/improved-set-up-for-developers\/\">new docs posted for Open Library developers<\/a> who want to dig into their archives.\u00a0 Congrats to <strong>Raj<\/strong> and team for the update.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lars_Aronsson\">Lars<\/a> for the central correction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While sometimes confusing &#8220;books whose metadata has been scanned by Google&#8221; with &#8220;books that exist in the world&#8221;, a recent post on the G-blog about the size of the Google Books repository is delightful in its details.\u00a0 Thanks to Leonid Taycher for condensing that into a bit of light reading. Sadly, no estimates are given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[211,213,709],"tags":[40,497,19998,3764,19999,20000,19996],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international","category-metrics","category-wikipedia","tag-books","tag-google","tag-internet-archive","tag-metadata","tag-raj","tag-scanning","tag-tomes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iVvB-mi","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1390,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions\/1390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}